Putting Data into ACTION:
Team Collaboration that Produces Results
Pam Salazar

Cooper
Mission
Provide all children with the relevant tools to develop a foundation for living, learning and working successfully.


VisionCooper or is a learning community characterized by a responsive, child-centered philosophy that respects diversity and supports high expectations for the learning of all in a safe environment.


-Brett
Data enriched Thinking
Inquiry- Current Practice
Actions to expand Capacity
KEY:
Mission/Vision & High Expectations

*Close the gap in student learning…close the gap in adult action
Most important:
Understanding and Shared belief…what you will be… what you want to become
Community of learning
Systems
Teacher Support
Graphic High impact schools: key areas of action-PP
What do
High Levels of Learning for all students look like in your school?
Motivated students
Engaged
Higher level learning
Relevance
Real/Present time learning
How does your school take
responsibility to ensure that all students learn?
How do you
use data to support school success?
What have been the barriers?
Time (Collaboration: Vertical, SPED, Specialists, grade level)
Money
Way to record datya (4K)
Efficient use of Data tools
Real-time use of data
Data use training
Value of tool we are using
DO: How can we realign our focus?

Make working and learning one and the same!!!

To know both the WHAT (Student outcomes) and the WHY (Adult Actions)
…Then we understand the WHY behind the WHAT
What is our culture of Data enriched thinking?
A place where teachers say: “my scores aren’t going up, what can we do”
(Supportive, safe, honest, open)
DO: What does “quality Writing look like?
Weekly writing: 1 prompt per week: PBIS/Character//
Scrutinize the evidence to completely understand Adult Actions

DO: Ask the Cooper Staff…. Post-its
Parking lot
How does your staff engage in collaborative learning conversations? Have an “inquiry habit of the mind”?
How do your teams examine a broad range of “relevant evidence”?
How does your school regularly assess, monitor, and celebrate?
How does your school use data to determine effectiveness of practices?
Collecting Data…Three areas to focus your time on:
-The WHAT of teaching
-The HOW of Teaching
-The RESULT of teaching
3 Critical Practices +1
Standards driven Curriculum
Quality Teaching
Regular Formative & Summative Assessments

Rigor: Higher Order Thinking
Relevance: High Level of Interest to Students
Interactions: Teacher ‐ Student
Interactions: Student ‐ Student

Measure and Monitor
-WHAT DATA WILL WE COLLECT?
-HOW WILL WE COLLECT IT?
-HOW OFTEN WILL WE COLLECT IT?
-HOW WILL WE ORGANIZE IT?
-HOW WILL WE USE IT OVER TIME?
*You can’t teach kids you don’t know***

• Examining student assignments – ie alignment to standards and at DOK/Blooms levels
Consider – a curriculum self-study
• Examining grading practices – consistency, fairness, equity
Consider – a courageous conversation about grading practices
• Examining homework practices – value added, fairness, consistency, equity
Consider – a courageous conversation about homework practices

Use wordel.net for staff meetings graph

Pamela Salazar
Putting Data into ACTION: Team Collaboration that Produces Results!
The difference between excellent and average organizations is the shared belief of what you want to be and what you want to become.
Pam talks about herself in the third person and asks too many rhetorical questions about her services.